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Anatomy 7A Taste & Smell

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the organs that contain receptors associated with the sense of taste?

a)

Taste buds

b)

Smell buds

c)

Papillae

d)

Umami

2.

What are the elevations on the tongue that are associated with taste?

a)

Papillae

b)

Taste buds

c)

Taste pores

d)

Taste hairs

3.

Which word means pertaining to the sense of taste?

a)

Olfactory

b)

Gustatory

c)

Auditory

d)

Windatory

4.

Which structures are located in taste buds and have sensory receptors?

a)

Papillae

b)

Taste receptor cells

c)

Smell cells

d)

Olfactory cells

5.

What are the openings in taste buds called?

a)

Taste pores

b)

Taste holes

c)

Taste indentations

d)

Taste hairs

6.

What happens when a taste receptor cell is stimulated?

a)

Gag reflex is initiated

b)

The hairs move back and forth from excitement

c)

Nothing

d)

An impulse is triggered on a nearby nerve fiber

7.

What do gustatory cells respond to?

a)

Chemicals dissolved in mucus

b)

Chemicals dissolved in saliva

c)

Dry chemicals

d)

Wind gusts

8.

What are the basic tastes?

a)

Umami, Sugar, Savoury, bitter, sour

b)

Salty, Savoury, Bitter, Sweet, Umami

c)

Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Savory, Sour

d)

Bitter, Sour, Umami, Sugar, Salty

9.

Once transduction has occured, the next process is...

a)

The gustatory cortex receiving information about the tastant in order to create a taste

b)

The signals are transmitted to the brain through nerves attached to the taste receptor

c)

Perception of taste occurs in the gustatory cortex

d)

Perception occurs

10.

The last process of taste sensation to taste perception is?

a)

Perception of taste occurs in the gustatory cortex

b)

Perception of taste occurs in the taste bud

c)

The nerve cells receive the tastant

d)

The gustatory hair transmits the tastant to the gustatory cortex and then perception occurs

11.
If you plug your nose you can't taste your food as well....
a)
true
b)
false
12.
The type of receptor involved in smell and taste is
a)
chemoreceptor
b)
photoreceptor
c)
mechanoreceptor
d)
tastebud
13.
gustatory hairs are to taste as
olfactory hairs are to  _____
a)
sight
b)
hearing
c)
smell
d)
equilibrium
14.
What carries the sensory information from the nose to the brain?
a)
Olfactory bulb
b)
Olfactory nerve
c)
Optic nerve
d)
Thalamus
15.

What occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?

a)

Sensation

b)

Perception

c)

Illusion

d)

Sensory adaptation

16.

The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.

a)

Sensation

b)

Perception

c)

Illusion

d)

Sensory adaptation

17.
These protrude from the taste pore and are stimulated by chemicals dissolved in saliva:
a)
supporting cells
b)
sensory nerves
c)
gustatory hairs
d)
fungiform papillae
18.

A mucous membrane at the top of the nasal cavity; contains the olfactory receptor neurons that respond to airborne molecules called odorants

a)

olfactory bulb

b)

olfactory epithelium

c)

cribriform plate

d)

olfactory nerve

19.

Part of the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the cranial cavity. It has tiny holes allowing the olfactory neurons to pass through and join the olfactory bulb.

a)

facial bones

b)

cribriform plates

c)

zygomatic bones

d)

fontanel

20.

Which of the following is NOT true of olfactory neurons?

a)

they are smell receptors

b)

can regenerate

c)

bipolar in structure

d)

located in olfactory bulb